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Asheville Budget Salary & Fringe Benefits Breakdown

Our first review of the proposed 2015 Budget for the City of Asheville focused upon wages - salaries and benefits since this is the major portion of the budget ($82 million of the $154 million).

In light of recent articles from the Asheville Blade that pay wages have gone down and the ever increasing talk about living wages, we wanted to do this review first to see where the City of Asheville stands among the discussion. The letter from Gary Jackson accompanying the budget keeps mentioning that wages are a problem with the City and not sufficient. In addition, City taxpayers are getting a 1.5% tax increase while certain services have been cut back. The City also has $12 million a year it spends in bonds (financing).